Well much resistance arises from over use in the agricultural businesses. Animals are pumped with antibiotics to make them grow faster and more disease free. Some of these bugs like Salmonella get their resistance there and then get transferred to humans ! Eliminate that.

We need to start targeting antibiotic use to specific organisms & infections instead of docs prescribing the latest drug the some Rx detail salesman pushed ( for which the doc might get a kickback).

As far as MRSA, that's due to several things: large concentration of highly pathogenic bugs in a small area - it IS a hospital. Large numbers of sick, read immunologically compromised, people (patients). And the prevalence of antibiotics because that may be the only thing that may save them. Not to mention the genetics of the Staph which is very robust and can adapt and evolve (for all you evolution doubters- its happening right before your eyes !!).

Scarey stuff... but don't ask Congress to act on it. They can't even pass a fscking budget or pay their debts!!!

What I thought was a cold has continued to get worseover the last 10 days, so I finally opted for the doctor She looked me over and decided it was a bacterial infectionand jabbed me with cortical steroids to curtail the inflamationand scripted me an anti-biotic I was hitherto unfamiliar

Took my first dose a couple hours agobut my fever has since increased, so I took myusual double-dose of ALEVE (NSAID pain-killer/fever reducer)

I'm afraid I didn't make myself clear.Since I took the first of 10 doses my fever spikedway higher than it had been thus far...no big deal,I simply took a medication that I normally take everyday for pain, that's also a fever reducer, again, it should've been no big deal... accept that the fever-reducer can cause some very very (very) serious side effects WHEN TAKEN IN COMBINATIONwith the LEVAQUIN which I had not been aware ofuntil after I'd taken The ALEVE.

These possible side effects can be permanent, and can continue to manifest for months even years after discontinuing the over-the-counter pain meds. I practically live on day to day to function.

Among the side effects are permanent double-vision(should go well with my permanent vertigo from mystroke. ) Permanent loss of color perception,Great for an artist, huh? or permanent loss ofeyesight (see 1 & 2)

Howzis? Your tendons could spontaneously rupture.especially if you'd been given a corticosterone,like what the doctor injected me with in her office.Especially at risk are patients over 60... I'm 64.

Umm..still not making myself clear......I'm NOT afraid of the bacterial infection...I'm scared spitless of the side effects of thecombination of drugs I have in my body right now.

Ah, well.

_________________________."...or am I a butterfly dreaming she's a woman?"

I'm just bummed right now.I'll contact the doctor before my next scheduled doseand see if she thinks it's possible to switch to asafer anti-biotic that doesn't carry the potentialand frankly unacceptably serious side effects.

Losing my legs or eyesight to cure a pulmonaryinfection isn't much in the way of a trade-off.

_________________________."...or am I a butterfly dreaming she's a woman?"

This summer I got what I assumed was a cold, so did what I always do, get some DM cough medicine to calm my cough so I could sleep and take that expensive cold medicine. Then just expected to wait it out. Well after three weeks an not a let up I did something I've not done in my 68 years on this earth. I called my doctor for a cold.

He checked me over and dod a swab to check for pneumonia which was negative and prescribed anti-bionics by pill, codeine cough medicine, and an inhaler. All these new to me for a cold.

After taking all my antibiotics I was still no better, so I called doctors office for more. The nurse told me that the antibiotic keeps working after ivedone taken all the pills and to give it some more tine. I did and got over it. The codeine cough medicine helped a lot. Calmed my cough and let me sleep

Dave

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There are 10 kinds of people.Those that understand binary and those that don't.

I wasn't bothered by the pulmonary infection,but when I realized that it was getting worserather than better, I chose to go to the doctorrather than wind up in the ER over the weekend.

Yes.. it was the lack of sleep that was wearingme down. When I had my operation, I stoppedbreathing during the proceedure, and the forceda hose down my throat that seriously messed up my throat for months.. which lead to a lot offurther complications... one of which was myinability to communicate, the other was myability to sleep, since I couldn't lie downwithout choking. I lived on 5 minute snatchesof sleep for well over 2 months, which impairedmy ability to undergo physical therapy, whichI more or less completed after 2 years, just 2 weeks ago.

IOW.. I really wasn't anxious to go throughthat again.

The more important issue is the string ofmedical nightmares I've endured over the yearsfrom THE SIDE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS MEDICATIONSis way too long and involved to go into...

IOW.. I really wasn't anxious to go throughthat again. As I said, Loosing my legs tofight off a pulmonary infection is just not anacceptable trade-off.

_________________________."...or am I a butterfly dreaming she's a woman?"

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